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Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:39:40 -0400Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:07:23 -0400Bryan Fischer: 'I Don't Believe That Women Should Be Entrusted With High Political Office'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-i-dont-believe-women-should-be-entrusted-high-political-office
<p>On his radio program <a href="https://www.facebook.com/313269202224/videos/10154363192912225/">today</a>, American Family Radio's Bryan Fischer <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-only-allows-woman-be-president-last-resort">reiterated</a> his position that women should not be entrusted with positions of political authority.</p>
<p>Responding to a caller, Fischer stated that "you could make a pretty good biblical case ... that only men are supposed to hold political office."</p>
<p>"That's always the pattern in the word of God," he said. "The kings were all males, when you had a departure from that&nbsp;with Jezebel and Athaliah, it was not a good thing, it did not work out well. Leadership in the church is reserved for men, leadership in the home is reserved for men. In other words, in God's economy, he has designed leadership and authority in society and in the church and in the home to be exercised by men."</p>
<p>"I think you could make a good case that leadership in culture, society, politically as well as in the home, that that is something in God's economy that's reserved for men," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id0JcUWMbYc">Fischer stated</a>. "What if somebody had the courage to go on national TV, somebody of some kind of prominence or visibility, and said, 'Look, I'm going to vote for Trump because he's a man. I don't believe that women should be entrusted with high political office' ... That's the position I happen to take."</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association C4WomenFighting the RightBryan Fischer77891Fri, 12 Aug 2016 15:39:40 -0500WomenSam Rohrer: Having Women In Positions Of Political Leadership Is A 'Mark Of Judgment' Upon A Nationhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sam-rohrer-having-women-positions-political-leadership-mark-judgment-upon-nation
<p>Earlier this week, the American Pastors Network dedicated its daily "Stand in the Gap" radio program to discussing the question of whether it is "biblical to have women in positions of government," during which APN board member Gary Dull <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gary-dull-bible-says-women-should-not-be-high-political-positions">argued</a> that women should not be elected to such positions because it is "very clear in the scripture that a woman should not be in authority over men."</p>
<p>Yesterday, APN president Sam Rohrer appeared on TheDove TV's "Focus Today" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pcaNOXUWk0">program</a> to discuss the issue, where he provided a more "enlightened" answer to this question by insisting that while it's not necessarily unbiblical for women to hold positions of political authority, it is a sign that a society is under God's judgment.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Like Dull, Rohrer cited a verse from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+3&version=NIV">Isaiah 3</a>&nbsp;declaring that "youths oppress my people, women rule over them" when a nation is under judgment to assert that having women in leadership positions is "a mark of judgment" upon a nation.</p>
<p>"It was a mark of the lack of male leadership in positions to which God had called them," he said. "They rejected who God was, they departed, walking away from him &mdash; and I think we can draw the parallels to our country, obviously ... When that happens, [leaders] become tyrants or oppressors and God said, 'And women shall be rulers over you.' And that's where a lot of the context comes from, that that's an anathema."&nbsp;</p>
<p>"God does raise up women," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfQtUPxZ-d4">Rohrer said</a>, "there is no question about it, but the real condemnation is not the women in office, the condemnation is the disregard and the absolute inability for male leadership to perform as God intended it and I believe that that's the application for us now."</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Pastors NetworkC4Sam RohrerWomenFighting the Right77491Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:34:41 -0500WomenGary Dull: The Bible Says That 'Women Should Not Be In High Political Positions'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gary-dull-bible-says-women-should-not-be-high-political-positions
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<p>Last Thursday, ahead of Hillary Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, the American Pastors Network dedicated its "Stand in the Gap" <a href="http://americanpastorsnetwork.net/2016/07/28/stand-in-the-gap-today-72816/">radio program</a> to discussing the question of whether it is "biblical to have women in positions of government."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gary Dull, <a href="http://americanpastorsnetwork.net/about/leadership/gary-dull/">an APN board member and head of the&nbsp;Pennsylvania Pastors Network</a>, said on the program that women serving in positions of political leadership is a sign that a society is "spiritually rotten" and under the judgment of God.</p>
<p>Citing <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+3&version=NIV">Isaiah 3</a>, especially verse 12, which says that "youths oppress my people, women rule over them" when a nation is under judgment, Dull proclaimed that "what we see is that the condition in that nation in that particular period of time was very, very spiritually rotten and whether that was the cause for women leading them or that itself brought on the wickedness within the nation is to be debated, but it certainly does at least imply that maybe women should not be in high political positions."</p>
<p>Dull went on to cite <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Timothy+2&version=NIV">1 Timothy 2</a>, which he says&nbsp;"establishes a pattern" in the Bible that women are not to have authority over men.</p>
<p>"In God's line of authority," he said, "it seems very clear in the scripture that a woman should not be in authority over men, which would limit a woman from being the president of the United States of America or even a queen of some other particular nation."</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Pastors NetworkC4Gary DullPennsylvania Pastors Network WomenFighting the Right77336Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:09:34 -0500WomenDavid Barton Claims Pedophilia And Bestiality Are Now Recognized 'Gender Identities' Protected By The Militaryhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-barton-claims-pedophilia-and-bestiality-are-now-recognized-gender-identities-protected
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<p>David Barton hosted the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins on his "WallBuilders Live" radio program <a href="http://www.wallbuilderslive.com/Historic.asp?cdate=78395">today</a> to discuss the military's move toward lifting its ban on transgender service members, which Barton claimed would allow child molesters to serve in the military without repercussion.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2015/07/23/david-barton-churches-are-required-to-hire-pedophiles-to-run-church-nurseries/">Absurdly stating</a> that the government now recognizes and protects 82 different "gender identities," including pedophilia and bestiality, Barton claimed that child molesters are now free to openly serve in the military.</p>
<p>"There's 82 official gender identities now and they all have equal status and protection here," Barton said, "so we're talking pedophiles. If you're a military member and you have an inclination for young children, you can't be kicked out of the military for that anymore because that is your gender identity. If you are into having sex with animals, bestiality, that is one of the 82 gender identities, you cannot be kicked out for your lack of judgment and your very perverse taste on that."</p>
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<p>For his part, Perkins voiced his opposition to allowing gay and transgender soldiers to serve in the military, as well as to allowing women to serve in combat roles, warning that doing so is unbiblical and will "completely eradicate"&nbsp; respect for women from the "DNA of being a man in the western culture."</p>
<p>"Men, we've been taught to be deferential toward women, to protect women" Perkins said. "That something I hope we don't lose but this engineering is going to be driven out of the military because you cannot give deference to another member of a fighting unit; that jeopardizes the safety and security of the entire unit. And that is something that will have to be taken out of what's become a part of the DNA of being a man in the western culture. It's being lost, it's not what it was at one point, but this will completely eradicate it to see women no different than a man. Quite frankly, that's not biblical and it's certainly not conducive to an environment that respects women."</p>
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Kyle MantylaTony Perkins Wallbuilders WomenC3David Barton Family Research CouncilFighting the Right60926Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:12:09 -0500WomenGlenn Beck's Co-Hosts See Nothing Wrong With Catcalling Video: 'You're Asking For Somebody To Notice Your Butt'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-becks-co-hosts-see-nothing-wrong-catcalling-video-youre-asking-somebody-notice-your-bu
<p>Earlier this week, an anti-street-harassment group released <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A">a video documenting</a> a woman dressed in jeans and a t-shirt receiving over a hundred unwanted catcalls from men while walking the streets of New York over a ten hour period.</p>
<p>Glenn Beck mentioned the video on his radio program today, admitting that some of this harassment was creepy and inappropriate, but his co-hosts, Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere, were not particularly sympathetic, insisting that the vast majority of the remarks made toward this woman should be considered compliments and asserting that she obviously wanted people looking at her backside.</p>
<p>At one point in the video, a man says "Sexy American Eagle" as the woman passes by, apparently in reference to a logo patch on back of her jeans, and Pat Gray didn't really see anything wrong with that, asserting utterly without evidence that she must have had a large logo plastered across her behind, which was her way of enticing people to look at it.</p>
<p>"C'mon, you're wearing logos on your butt!" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7I4l0-0XEA">Gray said</a>. "You're asking for somebody to notice your butt":</p>
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Kyle MantylaPat GrayStu BurguiereWomenC3Glenn BeckFighting the Right48858Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:01:50 -0500WomenFischer: Janay Rice 'Getting Knocked Out In a Casino Elevator' Shows The Dangers Of Unbiblical Cohabitation ​http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-getting-knocked-out-casino-elevator-shows-janay-rice-dangers-unbiblical-cohabitation
<p>On his "Focal Point" radio program <a href="http://vimeo.com/106005217">today</a>, Bryan Fischer offered his insights into the Ray Rice domestic abuse scandal by saying that Rice's then-fianc&eacute;e, now-wife Janay Palmer Rice was essentially responsible for her own abuse, which was the result of engaging in unbiblical cohabitation.</p>
<p>As Fischer explained, the Bible strictly prohibits premarital cohabitation, so Ray Rice and Janay Palmer were guilty of engaging in illegitimate sexual immorality and living in sin. This biblical position is reinforced by social science research, he said, that shows that such relationships are more dangerous for women than marriage or living alone.</p>
<p>Fischer said that since Palmer had apparently "not been educated, did not understand biblical standards, she put herself in a place where, if her eyes were open and she was thinking clearly and she had been educated as she should have been in our school system, by her parents, at church, she would have known that the most dangerous place for me to be as a woman is living with a guy I'm not married to."</p>
<p>"If you want to have reasons not to do it," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceDtBNiRDsI">Fischer concluded</a>, "getting knocked out in a casino elevator, that's the only reason that you need ... When biblical standards of morality are ignored, people get hurt":</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association WomenC3Fighting the RightBryan Fischer48297Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:38:41 -0500WomenBeck: #YesAllWomen Is Nothing But 'Good Old Fashioned Man-Bashing'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-yesallwomen-nothing-good-old-fashioned-man-bashing
<p>In the wake of the murder spree carried out by Elliot Rodger, driven by his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/california-drive-by-shooting.html">deeply and viciously misogynistic views</a>, a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/27/living/california-killer-hashtag-yesallwomen/">#YesAllWomen hashtag</a> was started on Twitter to highlight the fact that society largely turns a blind eye to the fact that women experience various forms of harassment, threats, and discrimination on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Glenn Beck, shockingly, was not particularly moved by the effort as he mockingly read some of the tweets on his television program <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQr-3dCmMtI">last night</a> and called it nothing more than "a chance for some good, old fashioned man-bashing":</p>
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Kyle MantylaWomenC3Glenn BeckFighting the Right46989Wed, 28 May 2014 10:41:17 -0500WomenBarton: Not Allowing Women To Vote Was Designed 'To Keep The Family Together'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barton-not-allowing-women-vote-was-designed-keep-family-together
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<p>On <a href="http://www.wallbuilderslive.com/Historic.asp?cdate=77921">today's episode</a> of "WallBuilders Live," David Barton explained that women were not given the right to vote when the Constitution was written because the Founding Fathers were trying to protect the institution of the family by giving every "family" a right to vote through the male head of the household.</p>
<p>Responding to a question from a listener who argued that the Founding Fathers denied women the right to vote not out of sexism but rather based on the biblical principle that a house divided against itself cannot stand, Barton said that this interpretation was exactly right because not allowing women to vote was designed "to keep the family together":</p>
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<p>The family was the first and fundamental unit of all government. Actually, you have individual self government first, then you have family government second, you have civil government third, and have church government fourth.&nbsp; Those are the four levels of government in the order they are given in the Bible.</p>
<p>So family government precedes civil government and you watch that as colonists came to America, they voted by families. You look at the Pilgrims, when they finally moved away from socialism and moved toward the free enterprise system, they called the families together and gave families plots of land. Private property given to the families. And so that's the way things work.</p>
<p>And you have to remember back then, husband and wife, I mean the two were considered one. That is the biblical precept. That is the way they looked at them in the civil community. That is a family that is voting and so the head of the family is traditionally considered to be the husband and even biblically still continues to be so ...</p>
<p>Now, as we've moved away from the family unit - you need to be independent from the family, don't be chained down and be a mother and don't be chained down and be a father and don't be chained down to your parents, you know, we've moved into more of a family anarchy kind of thing, the 'Modern Family' kind of portrayal - that understanding has gone away.</p>
<p>Clearly, what [the listener] has asked is a brilliant question because it does reveal that the bigotry we're told they held back then, they didn't hold and what they did was they put the family unit higher than the government unit and they tried to work hard to keep the family together. And, as we can show in two or three hundred studies since then, the more you weaken the family, the more it hurts the entire culture and society.</p>
<p>So they had a strong culture, a strong society and it was based on a strong family that preceded government and they crafted their policies to protect a strong family.</p>
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Kyle MantylaWallbuilders WomenC3David Barton Fighting the Right46709Thu, 01 May 2014 12:57:47 -0500WomenSchlafly: Increase The Pay Gap So Women Will Have Better Opportunities To Find A Husbandhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-increase-pay-gap-so-women-will-have-better-opportunities-find-husband
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<p>Phyllis Schlafly has never been a big <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-tells-male-students-citadel-not-date-feminists">fan</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-american-women-are-most-fortunate-people-who-ever-lived-earth">of feminism</a> or <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-gay-rights-violate-free-speech-feminism-most-destructive-element-our-society">of efforts</a> to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/phyllis-schlafly-lashes-out-sheryl-sandberg-feminism-war-mother-nature">promote equality</a> between <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-we-need-train-men-stand-feminists">men and women</a> in general. Schlafly is, after all, notorious for her <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-married-women-can%E2%80%99t-be-raped-husbands">stated belief</a> that it is impossible for a husband to ever rape his wife because "<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-reiterates-view-married-women-cannot-be-raped-husbands">when you get married you have consented to sex.</a>"</p>
<p>Given this sort of outlook, it is not surprising that Schlafly opposes things like the Paycheck Fairness Act and efforts to close <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/04/11/how-salaries-compare-by-gender-for-federal-employees/">the gender pay gap</a>, arguing in an <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/facts-and-fallacies-about-paycheck-fairness-117959/">op-ed published</a> in <em>The Christian Post</em> that closing the pay gap will actually <em>harm</em> women.</p>
<p>As Schlafly sees it, women <em>want</em> to marry a man who makes more money than they do.&nbsp; As such, if women and men make the same amount, then women will be less likely to get married because they will be "unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate."</p>
<p>The solution, obviously, is to <em>increase the pay gap</em> so that men will earn more than women so that women, in turn, will have a better opportunity to find husbands:</p>
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<p>Another fact is the influence of hypergamy, which means that women typically choose a mate (husband or boyfriend) who earns more than she does. Men don't have the same preference for a higher-earning mate.</p>
<p>While women prefer to HAVE a higher-earning partner, men generally prefer to BE the higher-earning partner in a relationship. This simple but profound difference between the sexes has powerful consequences for the so-called pay gap.</p>
<p>Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate.</p>
<p>Obviously, I'm not saying women won't date or marry a lower-earning men, only that they probably prefer not to. If a higher-earning man is not available, many women are more likely not to marry at all.</p>
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<p>The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.</p>
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Kyle MantylaPhyllis SchlaflyWomenC3Eagle Forum Fighting the Right46493Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:24:47 -0500WomenFischer: Feminists Have A 'Fundamental Level Of Insecurity' About Their Own Femininityhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-feminists-have-fundamental-level-insecurity-about-their-own-femininity
<p>It is no surprise that Bryan Fischer is not much of a fan of the "<a href="http://banbossy.com/">Ban Bossy</a>" campaign, saying on his radio broadcast <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZFApwQEP7o">today</a> that the problem with feminists is that they want to be like men because they are insecure about their own femininity and therefore refuse to acquiesce to the role prescribed for them by God in the Bible.</p>
<p>Feminists, Fischer said, have "some kind of fundamental level of insecurity about their own nature, about their femininity, some kind of insecurity about being a woman."</p>
<p>"We don't need women trying to be like men," <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHiw50MctaU">he added</a>. "We need more women whose ambition in life is to be a woman":</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association WomenC3Fighting the RightBryan Fischer46129Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:52:35 -0500WomenWest: 'The Left Tries To Win The Women's Vote By Talking From The Waist Down'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/west-left-tries-win-womens-vote-talking-waist-down
<p>On Friday, Allen West <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/allen-west-mike-huckabee-democrats-women/2014/01/24/id/548930">spoke with Steve Malzberg</a> where he defended Mike Huckabee's <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-democrats-believe-women-cant-control-their-libido-without-uncle-sugar">recent comment</a> by declaring that "the Left tries to win the women's vote by talking from the waist down" while Republicans seek to reach the hearts and minds of female voters.</p>
<p>Asserting that Democrats want the government to be "the sugar daddy" and replace men, <a href="http://youtu.be/Dh3M5GrrbK4">West said</a> Democrats have been "caught guilty as always" and are responding by attacking Huckabee. He then went on to claim that the Left remains utterly silent when women like Malala Yousafzai are abused and attacked by the Taliban before declaring that "I'm going to be very blunt: the Left tries to win the women's vote by talking from the waist down":</p>
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Kyle MantylaAllen WestWomenC3Fighting the Right45523Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:34:33 -0500WomenFischer: Contraception Has Left Women Abused And Misusedhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-contraception-has-left-women-abused-and-misused
<p>On his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KJ-Jt1ZFyQ">broadcast on Friday</a>, Bryan Fischer took calls from female listeners in an effort to get their perspective on Mike Huckabee's <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-democrats-believe-women-cant-control-their-libido-without-uncle-sugar">comment</a> that Democrats are insulting women by requiring contraception coverage because they think women "can't control their libido."</p>
<p>Fischer, not surprisingly, defended Huckabee's point, adding that the invention of contraception has been nothing but a disaster for women because it "removed procreation from the sex act," thus freeing up men to have sex with women without having to worry about consequences and ultimately meaning that "he has no reason to commit himself to her."</p>
<p>As such, <a href="http://youtu.be/aeWjjWi2cf4">Fischer declared</a>, "the guy is the one that gets most of the benefits out of this and the woman is the one who is left abused and misused, her body surgically invaded to remove a life in her, so it hasn't work out to be sexually liberating for women at all, as far as I can see":</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association WomenC3Fighting the RightBryan Fischer45517Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:37:05 -0500WomenFischer: Women Were Designed To Be Ruled Over and Focus Their Energy on Making a Home for Their Children & Husbandhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-women-were-designed-be-ruled-over-and-focus-their-energy-making-home-their-children-
<p>On <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Dc_loZfMQ">today's radio program</a>, Bryan Fischer reacted to <a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/29/breadwinner-moms/">new research</a> finding that women are either the sole or primary source of income in 40% of homes ... and his reaction was exactly what you'd expect from sexist, borderline theocrat as he cited the Bible to assert that women were designed to be ruled over by their husbands and "to focus her energies ... on making a home for her children and for her husband."</p>
<p>Fischer was <a href="http://youtu.be/do3azcU3na4">especially alarmed</a> by the prospect that working women might earn more than their husbands because it is an unhealthy dynamic because it undermines "his sense of worth as a male":</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association WomenC3Fighting the RightBryan Fischer43197Wed, 29 May 2013 15:01:16 -0500WomenBeck: Society Is Going to Hell and the National Organization for Women is to Blamehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-society-going-hell-and-national-organization-women-blame
<p>On his radio program today, Glenn Beck spent a bit of time discussing <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/15/the-gosnell-case-heres-what-you-need-to-know/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein">the case of Kermit Gosnell</a> and the media's supposed refusal to adequately cover the story.&nbsp; Despite that fact that until last week, Beck's <em>The Blaze</em> had <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/15/the-gosnell-case-heres-what-you-need-to-know/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein">barely mentioned the story</a>, Beck blamed the media for failing to cover it and announced that he was going to delve into it in potentially graphic detail on tonight's television program.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://youtu.be/Dh34fg9UIBs">Beck's view</a>, the Gosnell case and "almost everything that is going on in our society, I think, was hastened by the National Organization of Women" [sic] because the organization convinced women that they were no different than men.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And when that happens, "society goes to hell" because men stop respecting women "and society starts to careen out of control":</p> <p align="center"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Dh34fg9UIBs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
Kyle MantylaWomenC3Glenn BeckFighting the Right42757Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:08:29 -0500WomenFischer: Obama Is Deliberately Destroying the Military by Allowing Women in Combathttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-obama-deliberately-destroying-military-allowing-women-combat
<p>As Brian <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/allen-west-still-attacking-liberals-and-gays-life-after-congress">just demonstrated</a>, the Religious Right is not at all pleased about the Pentagon's decision to allow women to serve in combat and that, of course, includes Bryan Fischer, who declared <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIFcWpwANs">on his radio program today</a> that the change is part of a deliberate effort on the part of President Obama to destroy the military.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://youtu.be/QMjo6qFl6Go">Fischer sees it</a>, Obama "detests the military" because he views it as tool that "white colonial powers" use to oppress nations around the globe.&nbsp; In fact, Obama is so imbued with hatred of America's fundamental "white supremacy [and] white racism," Fischer believes, that he is "systematically going about destroying the military" by allowing women to serve in combat:</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association WomenC3Fighting the RightBryan Fischer42221Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:16:16 -0500WomenBeck: Letting Women Serve in Combat Is 'the Dumbest Idea I've Ever Heard'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-letting-women-serve-combat-dumbest-idea-ive-ever-heard
<p>Glenn Beck is <a href="http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=25581095">none-too-pleased</a> about the the Pentagon's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/women-in-combat_n_2535954.html">decision</a> to lift the ban on women serving in front-line combat positions, <a href="http://youtu.be/x2ylQBLuA4E">calling it</a> "the dumbest idea I've ever heard" because the purpose of the military is to kill and intimidate people ... and no enemy is going to be intimidated "because we have a female Eskimo Hispanic dwarf cross-dresser and some handicapable, transgendered breast cancer survivor as a soldier on the front line":</p>
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Kyle MantylaWomenC3Glenn BeckFighting the Right42102Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:53:28 -0500WomenBuehner: Woman Fired for Being 'Irresistible' Should Have Been 'Working For Her Husband'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/buehner-woman-fired-being-irresistible-should-have-been-working-her-husband
<p>On yesterday&rsquo;s<a href="http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/generations-radio/player/sexual-infidelity-in-the-workplace-irresistible-temptations-for-men-320919.html"> <em>Generations Radio</em></a>, Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner took on the recent case in which the Iowa Supreme Court <a href="http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_6c0d8440-4b97-11e2-a741-0019bb2963f4.html">ruled</a> that a dentist was justified in firing an assistant whom he found &ldquo;irresistible.&rdquo; Swanson and Buehner, who agreed with the court&rsquo;s decision, used the case as a jumping-off point for a discussion of the woes of modern workplaces that throw men together with women to whom they are not married. Such arrangements, Buehner fretted, are &ldquo;pseudo-marriages.&rdquo; Swanson feared that they come dangerously close to &ldquo;polygamy&rdquo;:</p>
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<p><strong>Swanson: </strong>This is not unusual, unfortunately, and it certainly is going to happen when you have a decrease in family economies. It&rsquo;s one reason why we push the family economic vision, because the family economy is pretty much the way God set things up. The man and the woman come together not just for sexual union but also to be helpmeets and dominion-takers together as a team, as a lean, mean team in the dominion effort. That&rsquo;s the way it was designed in the garden when the woman came to the man as the helpmeet for the man in the dominion task.</p>
<p><strong>Buehner: </strong>And Kevin, I think that&rsquo;s key. What we have in some of these business workplaces is a woman who&rsquo;s not the wife being the helper or the helpmeet of the man and she has taken on the role of the helper&hellip;</p>
<p><strong>Swanson:</strong> &hellip;for the man.</p>
<p><strong>Buehner: </strong>And the only thing that&rsquo;s missing in that relationship is the sexual consummation.</p>
<p><strong>Swanson:</strong> Or the polygamy.</p>
<p><strong>Buehner: </strong>Right. So remember, when God placed Adam in the garden, he gave him a mandate. He said you need a helper. He told Adam to go out and take some dominion, Adam named the animals, He said, &lsquo;Yeah, this is really hard, you&rsquo;re gonna need yourself a helper.&rdquo; So He made Eve for him. It does not say that Eve was created because Adam needed to have a sexual outlet, it was created because Adam needed a helper. Now we take a man and we give him a helper out in the marketplace. He&rsquo;s in a pseudo-marriage.</p>
<p><strong>Swanson: </strong>And yeah, it can move in that direction pretty quickly.</p>
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<p>The root cause of these inappropriate workplace relationships, Swanson and Buehner conclude, is an economic system built by &ldquo;universities and colleges and political systems and corporate systems&rdquo; in which women work outside the family unit. The fired dental assistant, Buehner contends, &ldquo;would have been better off working for her husband.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>Swanson:</strong> Friends, you gotta understand that we have tremendous socio-economic forces that have been set up by systems that want to systematically destroy the integrity of the family life and the marriage in the 20th century and the 21st century. This is what you&rsquo;re up against. I just want people to understand that as we are trying to reconfigure entire socio-economic systems by way of our familyeconomics.com and by our huge conferences we are sponsoring around the country to this year, we are going up against this socio-economic structure that has been put in place by universities and colleges and political systems and corporate systems, etcetera, etcetera, that makes it extremely difficult for the family to survive in the 21st century.</p>
<p>&hellip;</p>
<p><strong>Buehner:</strong> In this dentist case situation, the dentist was married, his wife was working in the office with him. That&rsquo;s great. This woman, this &ldquo;irresistible&rdquo; woman, she was also married and had two children. It would have been better if she was working for her husband! I mean, these are utopian ideas here, but these are Biblical ideas.<br />
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Miranda BlueC4Kevin Swansonwar on womenWomenDave BuehnerGenerations RadioFighting the Right41917Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:03:29 -0500WomenFischer: 'Political Leadership Ought to be Reserved for the Hands of Males'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-political-leadership-ought-be-reserved-hands-males
<p>During the Republican primary, Bryan Fischer made a bit of news when he suggested that women <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/does-bryan-fischer-think-only-men-should-be-involved-politics">should not be serving</a> in positions of authority within the church or society at large, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-only-allows-woman-be-president-last-resort">saying</a> that God would only allow a woman (in this case, Rep. Michele Bachmann) to lead the nation in a desperate situation.</p>
<p>Fischer returned to the discussion of the proper role of women in society <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147490466&tab=video&video=2147528034">on his radio program today</a> where he <a href="http://youtu.be/I6PjAYNl24E">made it quite clear</a> that he believes that "biblical lines of authority" ought to be enforced at home, in the church, and in society and that anybody who has a problem with that can take it up with Jesus.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Fischer went on to reiterate that "masculine leadership in society over the nation" is "God's basic plan for today" and "political leadership ought to be ... reserved for the hands of males" and the fact that he is probably going to be attacked for saying so is just evidence that we can't have a reasonable discussion about this issue:</p>
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<p>Last week, Bryan Fischer was <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147490466&tab=video&video=2147522531">making</a> his case, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-liberals-america-are-killing-americas-women-they-are-ever-born">yet</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-left-hates-women">again</a>, that it is liberals who hate women ... especially stay at home moms. This prompted Fischer to go <a href="http://youtu.be/uNiRMbiknRU">off on a tangent</a> and declare that women can have more influence staying home and raising the next generation of leader than she can by "going out in the world and making her mark out there":</p>
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<p>It's not possible to overestimate that value that stay-at-home moms, what they contribute to society by investing their full energies in the children. Where does the next generation of leaders come from? It comes from moms, and dads, who are invested in the lives of their children. So a woman can have far more influence, far more significant impact on the world by giving herself wholly to growing her children up to be responsible, mature adults than she can by going out in the world and making her mark out there.</p>
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<p>The implication here, of course, is that "the next generation of leaders" - and every generation of leaders, for that matter -&nbsp; will be men since every woman should be at home raising children instead of "going out in the world and making her mark out there."</p>Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association Equality For AllWomenC3Fighting the RightBryan Fischer40157Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:14:12 -0500WomenSchlafly: 'American Women are the Most Fortunate People who Ever Lived on this Earth'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-american-women-are-most-fortunate-people-who-ever-lived-earth
<p>Earlier this month, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-tells-male-students-citadel-not-date-feminists">we posted</a> a report on remarks that Phyllis Schlafly delivered to a class at The Citadel entitled the "Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America" during which she warned the cadets not to date feminists.</p>
<p>The Citadel has finally <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBfy5DpwdE">posted the video</a> of Schlafly's appearance, which turned out to be an excruciatingly dull hour and forty five minutes of Schlafly railing against feminism and gay marriage and abortion to a group of cadets who, based on the question and answer session toward the end, clearly did not share many of her views.</p>
<p>The bulk of Schlafly's remarks was dedicated to recounting the rise of the conservative movement and her efforts to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment, which she said was unnecessary because "women have had every constitutional right men have [had] since the day it was written" ... which seems like a rather odd statement considering that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution">Constitution had to be specifically amended</a> to give women the right to vote.</p>
<p>We managed to grab a few "<a href="http://youtu.be/5_iDrBjYjRQ">highlights</a>" from Schlafly's remarks, such as we she said that feminism "is a bad word and everything they stand for is bad and destructive" because "American women are the most fortunate people who ever lived on this earth."&nbsp;</p>
<p>She then went on to explain that the true motive of feminists is to destroy the stay-at-home mother as a model because it gives men an advantage over women in the workplace.&nbsp; As Schlafly explained it, men have wives at home cooking them dinner and raising their children and the feminist "is insanely jealous of that [and since] she can't have a wife of her own, she wants to abolish the wife of the man."</p>
<p>Finally, she warned the cadets not to date women who are feminists, no matter how pretty they are and offered a surefire way to know whether a woman is a feminist or not - simply ask her how she feels about Phyllis Schlafly:</p>
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<p>Yesterday, <a href="http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120405/PC16/120409564&slId=6">Phyllis Schlafly traveled to South Carolina</a> to speak to at The Citadel, which now offers a course entitled the "Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America."</p>
<p>Speaking to an all-male audience, Schlafly assured them that women don't care about the issue of contraception and warned them not to date feminists:</p>
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<p>The recent political flap about contraception being an important issue for women is completely contrived by Democrats and the media to divert attention from abortion and other important issues, said conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Contraception is not controversial,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;The issue is not access. It&rsquo;s who&rsquo;s going to pay for it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>Most women are concerned about issues such as jobs and religious liberty, Schlafly said, not issues being drummed up by feminists to foster support for President Barack Obama.</p>
<p>And feminists are working through the media and other channels because the American public no longer seems to strongly support their agenda, Schlafly said. &ldquo;Feminists are having a hard time being elected because they essentially are unlikable,&rdquo; she said.</p>
<p>Schlafly talked to a group of Citadel students about the culture of conservatism and the history of the religious right. She told the all-male group that &ldquo;feminist is a bad word and everything they stand for is bad.&rdquo;</p>
<p>And she warned them about having personal relationships with feminists. &ldquo;Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Some of them are pretty. They don&rsquo;t all look like Bella Abzug.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>Kyle MantylaPhyllis SchlaflySouth CarolinaWomenC3Eagle Forum Fighting the Right39553Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:56:46 -0500WomenFischer: The Left Hates Womenhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-left-hates-women
<p>On Monday, Bryan Fischer came to the defense of Rush Limbaugh, saying he was "<a href="http://www.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147518277">lexically accurate</a>" to call Georgetown student Sandra Fluke a "slut" on his radio program and that Limbaugh's apology was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-limbaugh-victim-secular-sharia">proof</a> that we are now living under "secular Sharia."</p>
<p>Fischer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xjqddOWYxA">returned to the topic</a> on his radio program again today, during a segment in which <a href="http://youtu.be/6tprOY1hWfg">proclaimed</a> that all the misogyny, hatred, and vulgar attacks on women almost always comes from the Left because the Right respects women and treats them with dignity.&nbsp; In fact, explained Fischer, there is really no difference between the Left and Islamic Radicals, who see women as "something less than human."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then, after proclaiming that the Right always treats women respectfully, he then proceeded to again attack Fluke as a someone who is "sleeping with so many guys she can&rsquo;t keep track [and] doing it three times a day" while wondering if President Obama would be proud if his daughters turned out like that:</p>
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<p>Last week, Rick Santorum explained that he was opposed to any plans by the Pentagon to place women in combat positions, asserting that the "types of emotions that are involved" would compromise combat effectiveness.</p>
<p>Santorum quickly "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/rick-santorum-women-military-combat-roles_n_1267851.html">clarified</a>," saying that he didn't mean that women were emotionally unsuited for serving in combat but rather that male soldiers would be protective of female soldiers and inclined to compromise the mission in order to defend them.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, Bryan Fischer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Dd8wzQnBk">agrees with Santorum</a> ... and is even willing to <a href="http://youtu.be/Re52vWDodIk">defend the view</a> that Santorum himself rejected: that women are inherently emotionally unfit for combat:</p>
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<p>But not only are women emotionally unfit for combat but also physically unfit because, as Fischer explained in his <a href="http://www.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147517392">column today,</a> "the average female soldier does not even have the arm strength to throw a grenade far enough to keep herself from getting blown up."</p>
Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association Womenwomen in combatBryan Fischer28491Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:40:18 -0500WomenFischer Laments that ‘We Have Feminized Public Policy’http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-laments-%E2%80%98we-have-feminized-public-policy%E2%80%99
<p>The American Family Association&rsquo;s Bryan Fischer was excited today to read about a Public Library of Science One Journal <a href="http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/04/9957971-men-women-really-do-have-big-personality-differences">study</a> that finds distinct differences in personality traits between men and women. Although the study did not explore to what extent those differences are due to nature or nurture, and other researchers are already questioning the results, Fischer took the opportunity to expound on his views on the proper role of women in the public sphere.</p>
<p>Two years ago, Fischer provoked national controversy when he said that the United States had <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/bryan_fischer_defends_feminized_medal_of_honor_com.php">&ldquo;feminized&rdquo; the Medal of Honor</a> by granting it to those who who have saved lives, not just those who have killed enemy troops. Today he goes back to the theme, claiming that America is in trouble because we have &ldquo;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Kwo_JKGIIlA">feminized public policy</a>&rdquo;:</p>
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<p>If these differences are as profound as this study suggests, could that be the explanation for why God has designed men to be leaders in the home, leaders in the church and leaders in society? And I would suggest that the answer to that question is, &ldquo;Yes.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In fact, I&rsquo;ll tell you how we have gotten into trouble in our public policy, is &ndash; I don&rsquo;t know how to say this without getting myself in big trouble here &ndash; but the way we have gotten in trouble in our public policy is we have gotten away from masculine characteristics of public policy. We have feminized our public policy. Our public policy ought to be about stability, it ought to be about rule consciousness -- that&rsquo;s the rule of law, the same rules apply to everybody, that&rsquo;s what it ought to be about -- and vigilance. Instead, so much of our public policy has been driven by what? Sensitivity, warmth and fear. These are female characteristics, they&rsquo;re feminine characteristics, they should not be the things that guide and control public policy.</p>
<p>So anyway, I probably just got myself in a big mess there, but again that&rsquo;s not me saying it. That&rsquo;s not me saying that men and women have distinct personalities and it&rsquo;s inate, that&rsquo;s a secular outfit, the Public Library of Science One Journal.<br />
&nbsp;</p>
</blockquote>Miranda BlueAmerican Family Association antifeminismWomenBryan Fischer28765Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:00:14 -0500WomenVIDEO: Does Bob Marshall Agree w/ Rev. Ellison that Haitian Earthquake Was God's Punishment for Voodoo?http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/video-does-bob-marshall-agree-w-rev-ellison-haiti-earthquake-was-gods-punishment-voodoo
<p>Rev. Joe Ellison introduced Del. Bob Marshall last week as a "warrior who will fight for our cause." Ellison &ndash; with Marshall at his back &ndash; agreed with Pat Robertson and <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/02/anti-abortion_activists_say_ro.html">said that the Haitian earthquake was God's punishment</a> for practicing voodoo. Two minutes later, <a href="http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1894168">Marshall said that disabled children are God's punishment</a> for abortion.</p>
<p>Here's the video of Ellison's comments on Haiti and introduction of Marshall:</p>
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<blockquote>"From a spiritual standpoint, we think the Dr. Robertson was on target about Haiti, in the past, with voodoo. And we believe in the Bible that the practice of voodoo is a sin, and what caused the nation to suffer. Those who read the Bible and study the history know that what Dr. Robertson said was the truth."</blockquote>
<p>Does Marshall stand behind Ellison and his remarks on Haiti? Or will Marshall blame the <em>Washington Post</em> for first <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/02/anti-abortion_activists_say_ro.html">reporting Ellison's comments</a>, just as he has <a href="http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0210/709799.html">blamed the Capital News Service</a> for first reporting his own?</p>
<p>It is not an accident that Marshall and Ellison echoed one another and Pat Robertson. They all believe that God exacts vengeance on those who do not follow their peculiar and ultraconservative interpretation of the Bible.</p>
<p>Ellison may like to believe that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-blames-haiti-earthquake-pact-devil">Robertson's comments</a> merely "angered a lot of the so-called, in my opinion, liberals." But the truth is that Americans overwhelmingly reject such views, just as they reject Marshall's views on disabled children and abortion &ndash; including a not-so-liberal Governor named <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/state_regional_govtpolitics/article/MARS24_20100223-222007/326387/">Bob McConnell</a>.</p>
<p>And for those of you who missed it, here&rsquo;s the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/video-bob-marshall-proves-he-said-what-he-meant-meant-what-he-said">video of Bob Marshall claiming</a> that disabled children are God&rsquo;s punishment for abortion:</p>
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